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Swedish Christmas food: ham, cheese, hering, salads, potatoes, rice pudding, etc. The ham is the most important dish, like turkey in Britain and America. In addition, we eat a lot of nuts, fruit, chocolate, fudge, marzipan (usually formed like pigs) and drink a lot of beer and schnaps.
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A lot of people eat ham for dinner here, too. My family does sometimes. My mom also likes to cook lasagna or baked ziti, but she's half Italian. Really what we eat varies from year to year, but it's usually something Italian.
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A lot of people eat ham for dinner here, too. My family does sometimes. My mom also likes to cook lasagna or baked ziti, but she's half Italian. Really what we eat varies from year to year, but it's usually something Italian.
Whatsa matter, you? Hey, why you looking so sad?
Filthy I-talians.
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I blame the stereotypes. I always thought that every family in America had turkey for Christmas.
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I blame the stereotypes. I always thought that every family in America had turkey for Christmas.
Maybe you're getting it confused with Thanksgiving.
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A lot of people eat ham for dinner here, too. My family does sometimes. My mom also likes to cook lasagna or baked ziti, but she's half Italian. Really what we eat varies from year to year, but it's usually something Italian.
Whatsa matter, you? Hey, why you looking so sad?
Filthy I-talians.
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I blame the stereotypes. I always thought that every family in America had turkey for Christmas.
Maybe you're getting it confused with Thanksgiving.
I thought you ate it for both holidays. In films they always eat turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas in America.
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Turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, veg (but not sprouts which I've banned from my house) and yorkshire puddings. Pudding will be something rich and indulgent- but not xmas pudding or cake since Dunc is the only one in the house that likes them.
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I blame the stereotypes. I always thought that every family in America had turkey for Christmas.
Maybe you're getting it confused with Thanksgiving.
I thought you ate it for both holidays. In films they always eat turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas in America.
A lot of people eat if for Christmas too, but not nearly as often as Thanksgiving. It seems like most people eat turkey OR ham for Christmas.
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OK. ;)
Swedish Christmas candy:
Knäck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kn%C3%A4ck)
Thin ginger snaps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_snap)
Marzipan pigs. I've gotten one or two every year since I was a child:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Marcipangris.jpg)
Glögg, like German Glühwein, with raisins and sweet almond pieces in it:
(http://www.dlc.fi/~marianna/gourmet/pic/glogg.jpg)
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Beef Tenderloin aka Filet Mignon for the wife and myself, veal filet for Amber (she's not into the steak thing, but, loves veal), rice, squash, green beans or asparagus. Dessert is Yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting.
As for Turkey, I don't like it, it takes too long to cook as opposed to a roasting chicken and the chicken tastes better (to me). I can't even remember the last time I had turkey for the holidaze.
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Damned Hollywood fooling innocent Europeans to believe that Americans always eat turkey for Christmas.
Filet Mignon is sooo good, but I haven't tasted it for a long time. :P
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Damned Hollywood fooling innocent Europeans to believe that Americans always eat turkey for Christmas.
Filet Mignon is sooo good, but I haven't tasted it for a long time. :P
Well the sight of a huge turkey being brought into a room by a well dressed wife with a pearl necklace and the "adoring-well behaved" family sitting around the table, Is a nice little Hollywood Icon. And many people do eat Turkey for the hoildaze. Otherwise we wouldn't have these huge turkey farms churning out millions of turkeys for slaughter every year. It's a billion dollar industry! ::)
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Damned Hollywood fooling innocent Europeans to believe that Americans always eat turkey for Christmas.
My parents usually do a turkey for Christmas, but not always.... Just depends what they're in the mood for.
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We have a selection of meats for Christmas; usually turkey, ham and beef, with roast potatoes and other veg, and then berries for desert.
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We eat a lot of turkey. Not just for the holidays, either, but all year long at different times. I made one for Easter and Thanksgiving, of course, but four others this year, also.
For Christmas, we usually have ham, then New Year's feast we have pork tenderloin. Last New Year's, we had a beef ribeye roast, but I don't do well with beef as I used to ... delicious, but hard to digest. Other red meats are fine, but not beef.
This year's Christmas dinner will be baked, sugar cured ham, augratin potatoes, candied yams, green bean and mushroom casserole, cranberry muffins, fresh baked whole wheat bread, then for dessert, fruit salad, apple pie, pumpklin pie, banana cream pie, (everyone gets their favorite!) I make the pies and muffins the day before, bread is from a bread machine (yes, I still use one) and everything else happens that morning. My wife will help with the main meal preparation, since she rarely gets to cook, anymore ... her still working and me being a "kept man" and all. :laugh:
We may be po' but we eats good an' we has comfy beds ... an' good tunes ...
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Here's to all us "kept" men! :laugh: My wife is an excellent cook, but, her time and energy are limited as the "breadwinner". So I do most of it. But, when she does get to cook, she throws me out of the kitchen. Like tonite, she's making homemade Maine style clam chowder. :green:
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I used to think I was doing her a favor by doing all the cooking and so forth, but I have learned that to leave some of the 'fun' for her to do. I'm actually a more well rounded cook, but she has her specialities that should be world famous, by now, but I'm not telling anyone.
I love Maine style chowders!
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Beef Tenderloin aka Filet Mignon for the wife and myself, veal filet for Amber (she's not into the steak thing, but, loves veal), rice, squash, green beans or asparagus. Dessert is Yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting.
As for Turkey, I don't like it, it takes too long to cook as opposed to a roasting chicken and the chicken tastes better (to me). I can't even remember the last time I had turkey for the holidaze.
I should go up to Maine for Christmas. ;)
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I forgot to mention earlier, I'm going to try to make tamales again, this year. I've tried several times and there's always something, not quite right, about the texture of the massa. I hope that the old wives tale, that you must be a grandma to make good tamales, is not true. I do enough fooling Mother Nature, as it is. :laugh:
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My mom is like that too Carla, she thinks most Itallians are lieing cheating stealers. Its mainly because of her x husband, and maybe something to do with trauma. She never got dx with a trauma disorder. Yeah, so instead I live out her traumas including her bipolar disorder. The thing is, I can stop acting bipolar, unlike my mom. Its just a defective coping strategy to make everyone who is stimulating my trauma stop, and the people at south shore said the same thing. I truly agree with that too. My mom is cause so I must identify with my captor. My captor is my mom. I am exaggerating, but trauma is so tough. I would be called that, however, when being traumatized by a hostage situation. I act like my mom when I date, along the lines of cock tease. I am much nicer than her. Oh god I am natural, a person who lacks experience and is good at it.
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Baked ham.. gross! Too salty! Its Bad for one's health and its just gross with too much salt
I used the right form of to.. so ha hah. I tried this time, so STFU!
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People need to stop dissing Italians. :grrr: I'm only 1/4 Italian, but still...
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Baked ham.. gross! Too salty! Its Bad for one's health and its just gross with too much salt
We're baking a sugar cured ham ... not salty. Either way, I think it's more the other preservatives (nitrites?) that may collect in the liver, too long.
Go ahead and clue me.
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People need to stop dissing Italians. :grrr: I'm only 1/4 Italian, but still...
One fourth is more than enough to cause you to be hot blooded. I will have to remember that trait of yours. My Italian is only one eighth and it's tempered nicely with a mongrel mix of many other European ethnicities.
*breaks into song, thinking of QuirkyCarla*
'Hot Blooded' ... check it and see...
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Beef Tenderloin aka Filet Mignon for the wife and myself, veal filet for Amber (she's not into the steak thing, but, loves veal), rice, squash, green beans or asparagus. Dessert is Yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting.
As for Turkey, I don't like it, it takes too long to cook as opposed to a roasting chicken and the chicken tastes better (to me). I can't even remember the last time I had turkey for the holidaze.
I should go up to Maine for Christmas. ;)
And welcome you would be! ;) Tenderloins come 2 to a pack or you could enjoy the veal. Lightly sauteed with an Italian bread crumb coating.
One Xmas I made Veal Oscar, which is sauteed with asparagus spears covered with a hollandaise sauce and lightly sprinkled with shredded crabmeat! :green:
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I want to taste Maine lobsters. Really fresh, good cooked lobsters are marvellous. :P
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People need to stop dissing Italians. :grrr: I'm only 1/4 Italian, but still...
One fourth is more than enough to cause you to be hot blooded. I will have to remember that trait of yours. My Italian is only one eighth and it's tempered nicely with a mongrel mix of many other European ethnicities.
*breaks into song, thinking of QuirkyCarla*
'Hot Blooded' ... check it and see...
:laugh:
Beef Tenderloin aka Filet Mignon for the wife and myself, veal filet for Amber (she's not into the steak thing, but, loves veal), rice, squash, green beans or asparagus. Dessert is Yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting.
As for Turkey, I don't like it, it takes too long to cook as opposed to a roasting chicken and the chicken tastes better (to me). I can't even remember the last time I had turkey for the holidaze.
I should go up to Maine for Christmas. ;)
And welcome you would be! ;) Tenderloins come 2 to a pack or you could enjoy the veal. Lightly sauteed with an Italian bread crumb coating.
One Xmas I made Veal Oscar, which is sauteed with asparagus spears covered with a hollandaise sauce and lightly sprinkled with shredded crabmeat! :green:
The tenderloins sound good. I was craving steak today.
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How about a Christmas story? Cool stuff!
As Christmas approaches, a virgin mother is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her offspring.
She's Flora, the Komodo dragon.
(http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-12-20-komodo-virgin_x.htm?csp=24)
(Someone tell me if the link works for them. It works for me because it's already in my browser cache, but can you see it?)
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Woah. Another reason why Komodo dragons rock. 8)
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No kidding! Anything that can kill you with it's bite is bad ass, but if it can kill, just because it has a nasty mouth, without injecting poison, that's really making a statement.
That story is also another reason why we, dicks, need to respect females, in general.
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you punks.
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Baked ham.. gross! Too salty! Its Bad for one's health and its just gross with too much salt
We're baking a sugar cured ham ... not salty. Either way, I think it's more the other preservatives (nitrites?) that may collect in the liver, too long.
Go ahead and clue me.
I am not sure exactly, but it would seem logical that you are correct. Some extra sodium is useful for intensly training athletes, and sodium is more natural so you could be correct. I remember reading some article saying there are precursors in vegetables that turned into nitrites by chemical process in the body of some kind. I think I remember them saying something about it being good for yeah, and something to do with these nitrites killing bad bacteria in the body. I don't actually remember correctly though, and I want to stress that.
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You seem much calmer and more intelligent these days, Flo.
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Speaking of salt, there is low sodium salt available, where just 50% of the salt is sodium chloride="normal" salt. 40-50% is potassium chloride and 10% might be magnesium chloride. Much better for the heart and blood pressure.
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Hey Peter... I edited that piece of shit, and that is probably the reason I look so calmn. My house is in an uproar right now and its not even me, so I am far from calmn.
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Mcdonalds. Oh God, it is so good.
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Hey Peter... I edited that piece of shit, and that is probably the reason I look so calmn. My house is in an uproar right now and its not even me, so I am far from calmn.
We all appreciate all your efforts, Randy.
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Speaking of salt, there is low sodium salt available, where just 50% of the salt is sodium chloride="normal" salt. 40-50% is potassium chloride and 10% might be magnesium chloride. Much better for the heart and blood pressure.
I have used sea salt and many other varieties for years. There are so many truly wonderful flavors of salt to explore. I taste salt and sweet very well, compared to bitter and sour (many foods, I can not taste at all) and I can really enjoy salty foods, especially. I'm not quite as enamoured of sweet foods as I am salty, but almost.
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A lot of people eat ham for dinner here, too. My family does sometimes. My mom also likes to cook lasagna or baked ziti, but she's half Italian. Really what we eat varies from year to year, but it's usually something Italian.
Whatsa matter, you? Hey, why you looking so sad?
Filthy I-talians.
???
Meh. If someone doesn't get it, no major loss.
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We just have cold meats like ham, turkey, chicken, which there is enough to last a whole week.
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Speaking of salt, there is low sodium salt available, where just 50% of the salt is sodium chloride="normal" salt. 40-50% is potassium chloride and 10% might be magnesium chloride. Much better for the heart and blood pressure.
That stuff always hurts my mouth, weird ???
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You might be over-sensitive to potassium salts. In fact, when they execute people with injections in the US, they give them an OD of potassium chloride, so that the heart stops.
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You might be over-sensitive to potassium salts. In fact, when they execute people with injections in the US, they give them an OD of potassium chloride, so that the heart stops.
That might be it- everytime I've had that LO-salt shit it felt like it was made from powdered glass.
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Potassium Chloride is a key electrolyte in the hearts electrical system. Too high or too low levels in the blood signify big problems!
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Christmas fruit mince pies.
The cat ate part of one I dropped by mistake and i found a puddle of sick with bits of mince pie in it.
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am i going to hell for eating the baby jesus for x-mas?
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am i going to hell for eating the baby jesus for x-mas?
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am i going to hell for eating the baby jesus for x-mas?
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jesus looks like peter mackenzie.
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my saviour.
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I eat a free dinner at work, since I usually work that day. :devour:
Most often it is a delicious turkey dinner!
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Three-four years on, it's the same answer. Turkey dinner at work. :2thumbsup:
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Attention all weebles, Christmas is over. :zoinks:
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Attention all weebles, Christmas is over. :zoinks:
Christmas is over when I say it's over. :heisenberg:
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We do a Chinese buffet. Boiled shrimp and sushi for me, sushi and pizza for The PR. PA would eat Chinese.
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I didn't have any turkey this Christmas just gone. I had pasta salad, potato salad and... more salad. Didn't have any dessert either as none of it appealed to me.